How to count occurrences of each distinct value for every column in a dataframe?

Question

edf.select(\"x\").distinct.show() shows the distinct values that are present in x column of edf DataFrame.

Is there an efficient

Answer 1

Another option without resorting to sql functions

df.groupBy('your_column_name').count().show()

show will print the different values and their occurrences. The result without show will be a dataframe.